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traversed by a submarginal series of four large white round spots, the inner basal 

 area being ochreous, intersected by the brown radial and median veinlets. Underside 

 paler and more suffused chestnut-red than in the male, the basal area of an ochreous 

 tint, with numerous paler ochreous or cinerescent-ochreous transverse strigfe, which 

 are very broad and are palest on the lower basal area of the forewing ; the costal 

 border, apical patch and outer border of the forewing, and outer border of the hind- 

 wing, more or less thickly covered with transverse lilacine-white, or ochreous-white, 

 sti'igee ; the subcostal white spot on hindwing more or less prominent, or sometimes 

 absent. 



Expanse, S 2^q to S^-q, ? 3^, to S^-o inches. 



Adult Caterpillar. — Elongate, fusiform, setose ; green, with longitudinal dorsal 

 and lateral yellow lines, and a subdorsal row of yellow elongated yellow spots which 

 are centred with red and posteriorly edged with blue; head brownish, armed 

 with two erect brownish setose processes ; anal segment also with two red slender 

 hindward-projecting processes. (Described from a drawing reproduced on our 

 plate, made in AUipur, Lower Bengal, by the late Mr. Arthur Grote's native artist.) 



Chrysalis. — Similar to E. fraterna and E. caudata. 



Habitat. — "Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Eastern and Lower 

 Bengal ; Central India. 



The female of E. undularis is an excellent mimic of the common Limnaine 

 butterfly, Salatura Genutia* 



Disteibtjtion.- — " This is the common Elymnias of Northern India. It is 

 common in the warm valleys of the outer Himalayas, as far west as Masuri, In 

 Bengal, where the rainfall is heavy, it extends into the plains, and is found in 

 Assam, Silhet, Eastern Bengal, and along the East Coast as far South as Raja- 

 mundry on the Godaveri, and it also occurs in the Deccan. It affects bush jungle 

 and shady undergrowth " (Butt. Ind. 267). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in 

 Kumaon at " Ranibagh at the foot of the outer hills, at 1000 feet elevation " 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 120). Mr. H. J. Elwes records it as being " found in 

 Sikkim from the Terai up to 3000 feet more or less commonly at all seasons of 

 the year" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 330). Mr. J.Wood-Mason "obtained twenty-seven 

 males and two females in the forests around Silcuri, in Cachar, between April and 

 August, being most common in June and July. The males emit a strong odour 

 resembling vanilla, but the females are scentless " (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 352). 

 The late Capt. Mortimer Slater found it " not uncommon at Dacca, flying in a 

 weak, hovering manner, generally over the damp pits formerly used by the muslin 

 manufacturers" (MS. Notes). It is "very common at Calcutta, settling on the 



* See vol. i. Plate 10, figs, lb, c. 

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